Jackie Mayo, a spokeswoman for Cleveland Hopkins airport, says the crew of the Heat’s plane reported a wing “flap issue” early Thursday as the aircraft was on its approach. An alert was issued at the airport and two fire trucks were sent out to the runway, which is standard procedure.

The plane landed safely about 2:30 a.m. By the way, that’s pretty much when teams arrive on road back-to-backs, they get to sleep about an hour later. Charter flights and posh hotels are part of the gig, but nobody is their best without proper sleep, and it’s why back-to-backs are hard.

Intellectually, we all know the rough landing is nothing. Anyone who flies a lot has these kinds of stories and worse. Every NBA player does. But still, something about a rough landing for this team in this place at this time just seems more like something out of a rather obvious horror novel than it does reality.